Though it is a week long celebration, BdOSN celebrates it for 2 months to bring more insigts in the celebration. Starting from December 01, 2017, CSE Week in Bangladesh will be celebrated till January 31st, 2018. Within this time, various types of events, sessions, Hour of Code, Programming Adda, Live programs and many things have been celebrated around the country.

On 5th January, 2018, 25 mentors took their training on organizing Hour of Code in 25 districts. The event took place at BdOSN's office. Munir Hasan, General Secretary of BdOSN was present at the session. BdOSN's senior volunteers and mentors conducted the session.

The new mentors will start their work from 12th of January and organize at least 3 Hour of Code in each districts.

To celebrate the CSE Week 2017, BdOSN had organized a session on titled 'Girls Programming Adda: Beyond the Horizon with Bristy Sikder' on 23rd December 2017 at World University of Bangladesh. 32 young femlae students studying at different universities inside and outside Dhaka attended the sesson and engaged in a cheerful discussion.

Brist Sikder, now studying at MIT is an awardee of World Renowned Female Programmer and got chnace at 14 world renowned universities while she was trying for abroad study. This brilliant brain joined today at the session. She discussed with details of doing well in programming, keeping on tract while programming and many things relevant to be a good programmer.

Tripty, a participant from a private university shared that she enjoyed the session very much and believed that this session would be a great help to her.

Over the year, the majority of ACM-ICPC world finalists from Bangladesh has been dominated by the male students whereas the female contestants are still hard to put in an equality measure with the male participants. To lessen this huge gap created over the years and bring out more talented female coders , NSU ACM-W SC is proud to take up the initiative to create a platform to patronize the talented female students in programming field of our country.

And for this, the only officially ACM chartered student chapter for female students of the country, NSU ACM-W SC is here to gladly present the first ever “Inter University Girls’ Programming Contest 2018” (NSU-IUGPC’18). The event is co-organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and Prothom Alo is its associate partner.

There will be a preliminary contest on 5th January, 2018 on the basis of which the final 70 teams and five teams from NSU will be selected to compete in the final contest on 26th January, 2018.

The Program Officer of BdOSN Sharmin Kabir shared that this initiative will take the university students' programming skills to a higher level. The female students will use the best of this platform-she expressed.